Opinion Line Extra (June 23)

Thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan said we need to make government run more like a business. Now we can’t afford our health care system or defense, financial or legal system. Maybe it’s time to rethink this whole government-as-a-business thing.

Thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan said we need to make government run more like a business. Now we can’t afford our health care system or defense, financial or legal system. Maybe it’s time to rethink this whole government-as-a-business thing.

A reader said President Obama’s stated agenda in “Dreams From My Father” is to weaken America on the world stage. Wow – my book says nothing even close to that. The reader must have the Republican version.

Of course we should send weapons to Syria. They should be nuclear weapons and they should go to both sides. Let them destroy each other and get this one over with. We should do the same for every country in that part of the world.

If one terror plot was stopped because of cyberspying, it is well worth the effort. The Eagle published a story stating that number was 50. I say, well worth a little loss of my privacy.

The older I get, the more I see that a good majority of people do not understand how the whole reproductive cycle works. And some are too stupid to ask.

Control people, not guns.

The only possible compromise with evil is abject surrender. Evil will accept no less. Facing a path from which there is no escape and no choice cannot be thought a compromise.

Sometimes things can’t cost less. They can only be cheaper.

The state can no longer claim WSU, KU, KSU, ESU, FHSU or PSU as state universities. It gave up that right when state funding dropped below 25 percent of the universities’ total budget and it put the majority of the expense on the backs of the students.

There is nothing wrong with Kansas voting laws. All voters should be expected to show proof of citizenship before casting an election ballot.

I posted a sign above our doorbell that reads, “No solicitors. Please do not disturb,” yet last Saturday we were awakened at 8:30 a.m. by two Jehovah’s Witnesses ringing our doorbell repeatedly. How rude.

Congratulations to the new company cleaning the skate park on South Emporia. The park had been a dirty mess, with trash and graffiti everywhere. I was ashamed that the city didn’t provide a cleaner environment for the skaters. Now I see a great improvement in the condition of the park.

I’d like to see at least one city bus with flames painted on the sides.

The drivers who race to the front of the line in the construction zones were the kids who cut the lines in school.

The Miami Heat proved why you never, never give up. Congratulations on another NBA title.